The Spanner

This is gonna sound absolutely bat shit crazy and I've literally only told my sister, parents and close friends about this, and just recently I've considered writing this all down as my wife feels its interesting.

Back in 2000 me and my girlfriend both 21 and our daughter who was 2 months old at the time moved into a council house in Essex, UK.

One night we were both asleep in bed, both of us stark naked as it was during a particular hot summer.

My girlfriend woke me up with a slap and said "you're funny". I turned over because I was pissed she'd woke me up and asked her wtf was going on.

In her hand she had a large adjustable spanner, she went on to explain how the coldness of the spanner woke her up the instant it was placed on her bare chest.

She thought it was me playing a prank and wouldn't believe me when I said it wasn't. I was so scared that someone else had broke into our house and put it there that I got up and checked all the windows and doors. I then didn't sleep for 3 nights straight.

The spanner was mine, it was kept in a tool box in a walk-in cupboard downstairs but at the time there was no access to the cupboard as we were having a new kitchen fitted and it was blocked.

There were many strange creepy things that happened in that house the bath filling up with water over night to the point the second I put the tip of my fingers in the water, the water poured over the edge also bangs, footsteps upstairs etc but the spanner was the one thing I struggled to explain.

Nobody ever liked to stay at our house and we only found this out after we moved, family and friends would say they never liked it there and would avoid spending too long at the house.

Roll on to 2006, I'm no longer with my daughters mum and I'm out with work friends for a drink. The girl behind the bar is giving me glances every now and then and I'm feeling good as I think I may have pulled.

She asks me what school I went to and where I work as she recognises me from somewhere. I tell her and she says you must just have a recognisable face as I've seen you before somewhere. I tell her where I was from before my split from my ex and move to another area and she says she lives there now.

So we both agree its very possible that we've crossed paths before. She tells me the road she lives on, which I say "oh well that explains it I lived on the same road" she then tells me the house number "302".....the same very house i lived at.

What she said next will stay with me forever "I've been living there 5 months and I hate it, me and my boyfriend think it's haunted, I've even woke during the night with an empty pint glass on my chest".

I told her about the spanner and she burst out crying. We exchanged numbers so we could chat at a later date. A week later I spoke to her and her boyfriend and they said they had moved back to his parents house. I never heard from them again.

I'm 100% a sceptic and don't believe in ghosts or the super natural which must sound crazy after you read this story but I'm convinced it must be something else, what it is I really dont know.

Even to this day my ex thinks it was me who put the spanner there. I loved playing pranks on her that's true but how is that a prank its not funny and if was it backfired because I literally shit myself thinking we had an intruder that night.

Yeah one of the strange things that happened one night was i got out of bed to use the toilet as I was walking across the landing I could hear one of my daughters toys playing music. I went into her bedroom to find the toy to turn it off as I didn't want her to wake up. None of the toys in her bedroom were on. So as I walked back across the landing it got louder. I then realised it was coming from the loft/attic. This was after the spanner incident so I was on edge anyway and went up to investigate. I went up and it was still playing. It was a wind-up radio toy and not battery operated. The only way to get it to play music was to wind it up. So that raised questions as to how it was playing music.

There were so many strange things that happened. I'll maybe put them all on here at some point. Some are so strange I'm afraid I'd be called a liar and as a sceptic I'd understand.

I'll leave this last oddity with you guys.

I had bought my daughter two goldfish and they were in a fish bowl in the kitchen. One Sunday morning my girlfriend woke me up and called me downstairs into the kitchen. The fish were both dead. But this is where it gets really weird. Both fish were floating on the surface....minus their eyes. We didn't own a cat it may have been a rodent possibly. To be honest a lot of the things that happened we kept to ourselves for fear of being called crazy or mad. We were young parents and just trying to get on with our lives and didn't want anyone thinking we were bad parents as we were so young. So we just sort of suffered in silence until our relationship ended and we went our separate ways.

#Unexplained/Paranormal #Sounds/Footsteps #Visual/Objects/Moved